When the New York Times recently announced that they had hired William Kristol as their new Op-Ed columnist, they came in for some criticism from the left: Why was the Times kowtowing to the right by hiring the editor of the right-wing Weekly Standard?
On the surface, the answer was simple. In the old days, they had William Safire, Vice President Agnew's ex-speech writer, as the house conservative, and now that Safire had retired, to restore the balance between left and...
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